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FCC Plan to Unlock the Cable Box Draws Cheers and Jeers

A clash is coming between big cable operators and the likes of Amazon, Netflix, and Google.

There are few things that get broad agreement on the Internet. Adele and the Pope are beyond reproach. But in terms of universal sentiment, it’s hard to match the vitriol for cable companies.

No surprise, then, that #UnlockTheBox was getting a lot of love on Twitter last week, after the Federal Communications Commission advanced another plan to reform cable just a year after its hotly debated net-neutrality ruling, which opened the...